Why did we think anything on the public internet was a place to let kids roam with no training?
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Quick Thought – The Data Isn’t Safe – Bake in Privacy and Security
Of course, when we create new laws or tools, we focus on the problem in front of us. Whether that be, in this case, trying to enforce an age restriction or requiring identity verification in some odd attempt at making…
Shared Links (weekly) Feb. 5 2023
Linked – Twitter to end free access to its API in Elon Musk’s latest monetization push
Think about it, services that tell you how many times your post has been shared on Twitter, auto-posting from a blog, automation involving automatic sharing of links, and scheduling of tweets, many of these things involve the API. Many of…
So Now It’s Quiet Promotions?
All this time, this person is being evaluated based on how they lead the team they are not officially leading. They are even being measured based on the performance of people who don’t report to them and don’t know this…
Shared Links (weekly) Jan. 29, 2023
- Research Is In: Work Stress Is Not “Just in Your Head”
- Layoff Brain
- Is Your Training Contributing to Quiet and Quick Quitting?
- Google Should Fire Sundar Pichai– Ed makes the point that Big Tech companies don’t need to have
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One More on the Google Layoffs
This further emphasizes that living your life for work is not worth it in the end. How many similar stories are out there? How many people were mid-project or working late evenings on important deals and were let go the…
Linked – This is the year of the RSS reader. (Really!)
I have heard this before, but is the Twitter situation going to be the thing that moves the needle for RSS? I started using Revue to send newsletters last year as an option for people who were trying to follow…
Quick Thought – Your Employees Are Individuals not Statistics
Apply the same logic to the preference of where to work. If a survey says 51% of people think hybrid is a good idea, then it is true that hybrid is the option that would be preferable to most people.…
Do Layoffs Fix Anything, or Do We Have Them Because Everyone Else is Doing It?

Take a hard look at what leaders are saying about layoffs and what they focus on. Do they seem personally hurt and concerned for the people leaving? Do they have honest and transparent explanations for why they made these decisions?…